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WILHELM KNEHANs AND FRANZ PscHEL, oF BIELEFELD, GERMANY,` AssIeNoHs To THE EIELEFELDER MASCHINENFABEIK, voEMALsDUH` Horr a Coi, oF BIELEFELD, GERMANY.

CASH-Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,151, dated Januar-y 28, 1902.

Application tied June 2,1900. seria No. 13,869. .uro modem T0 all whom '716 may concern: l

Be it known that we, WILHELM KNEHANs, merchant, and FRANZ PsGHEL,n1echanical engineer, subjects of the German Emperor,re siding in the city of Bielefeld, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in or .Relatingto Cash-Boxes and the Like, of which the following is a specification;

Our invention relates to a cash or like box with several separate Vdivisionssuch as, for instance, are employed in connection with cash-register apparatus.

The object of theinvention is to provide a box having several divisions or receptacles which may be opened by a corresponding nu mber of differently-formed keys applied to one and the same keyhole, the unlocking of a cerltain division being possible only by means of the key correspon ding to that division. Such a cash-box is represented in the accompanying drawings.

Figure lis a plan view,- partly in horizontal section; and FigJQ, a vertical section of the same, While the remaining views, Figs. 3 to 6, illustrate several keys and their connections with the corresponding tubes, and Figs. 7 to lO are views of several cams.

In the constructionshown in the drawings the cash-box, in the shape of a drawer, is dividedinto four sections or divisions, (marked Z9 c d e.) In the central portion of the drawer e' and mounted at its inner end in a bearing p. On this rod are arranged a number of tubes q, corresponding to the divisions, telescopically arranged one over the other in such a manner that each tube can be turned independently. of the others by means of a key passing over the free end of the rod o. The keys represented in Figs. 3 to 6 are so shaped `that when applying one of them only one of the tubes will be actuated by that key. Thus, for instance, the key Q will actuate the outside tube, While the following key Q' will engage with the nekt narrower' tube, and so on. This is effected by formingthe key-bits in such a manner that when inserting a key-bit a projecting part of it enters the notch of one of the tubes, while the other parts of the keybit do not engage the notches of the remaining tubes. Each tube is provided at a suitable point with an extension or cam w,adapted to engage a projection on the corresponding longitudinally-movable bar k in the corresponding division of the cash-box or drawer.

, By inserting and turning one of the keys the bar lo of the corresponding section for which the key is intended will be displaced by the projection w pressing the projection inward. On the inner wall of each section there is arranged a locking hook or hooks h, pivoted at about the center and articulated at e to the corresponding bar 7c in such a manner that by actuating the said key the locking-hook It is Withdrawn and disengaged from the correspondinghookfion the lid of the box or com-V partment. The lid, therefore, is thus unlocked and may be thrown openautomatically by means of a suitably-arrangedspring. On pressing the lid down the lid-hook t will again interlock with the locking-hook h, thereby relooking the lid. This locking of the lids of all the sections may be produced automaticallya-as, for instance, by pushing the drawer back into its recess. For this purpose sepaate springs may be arranged for the various ids.

It will be clear from the above description that according. to whichever key is selected a certain section only of the cash-box will be unlocked, although all these sections are opened through one and the same keyhole.

Frein the foregoing description it will of course 'be understood that our invention is capable of many modifications not herein speciicallymentioned and which can be made Without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of our invention, we declare that what We claim isl. In a drawer, cash-box or the like the com-y bination with a plurality of divisions and a corresponding number of differently-formed keys, ofmeans for opening each division by its corresponding key applied to one and the same keyhole, substantially as described.

2. In a drawer, cash-box or the like the cornbination with a plurality of divisions of a common keyhole, and a plurality of keys, one for each division, substantially as described.

3. In a drawer, cash-box or the like the combination with a plurality of divisions in said drawer of a common keyhole and a plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other, and means by which each tube may unlock its corresponding division, substantially as described.

4. In a drawer, cash-box or the like, having a .number of compartments or divisions, the combination with one keyhole of a plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other and means by which each tube may unlock its corresponding d rawerfdivision ,substantially as described. v

5. In adrawer, cash-box or thelike the combination with a keyhole of a plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other, and means by which each tube can be turned independently of the others, substantially as described.

6. In a drawer, cash-box or the like having a number of divisions, the combination with a keyhole ofa plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other, a cam on each tube for engaginga projection in the corresponding division of the drawer, substantially as described.

7. In a drawer, cash-box or the like the combination with a keyhole of a plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other, and a corresponding bar in each division of the boX connected with the tubes for controlling the drawer-locking mechanisms, substantially as described.

8. In a drawer, cash-box or the like formed with a series of divisions, the combination with'a keyhole of a plurality of tubes concentrically arranged one over the other, a bar in each division of the drawer, a locking-hook ,operated by each bar, a lid for each division,

and a corresponding hook on the lid of the division, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILHELM KNEH ANs. l FRANZ PUSCHEL.

Witnesses:

WOLDEMAR HAUPT, HENRY HAsPER. 

